Network Engineer III

Essential Utilities, Inc. delivers safe, clean, reliable services that improve quality of life for individuals, families, and entire communities.

Operating as the Aqua (water and wastewater services) and the Peoples and Delta (natural gas) brands, Essential serves approximately 5.5 million people across 10 states. We are committed to sustainable growth, operational excellence, a superior customer experience, and premier employer status - including a competitive and comprehensive benefits package as well as a commitment to career growth opportunities.

We are advocates for the communities we serve and are dedicated stewards of natural lands, protecting more than 7,600 acres of forests and other habitats throughout our footprint.

Our company is one of the most significant publicly traded water, wastewater service and natural gas providers in the U.S.

The primary focus of the Network Engineer III is to provide leadership, planning, design, implementation, maintenance and support of Essential's network infrastructure. This position will also oversee and approve network design and solutions recommended by other staff engineers.

The responsibilities include management of the following services: WAN/LAN network design/administration, virtualization, enterprise wireless, cloud architecture/design, SAN fiber, network load balancers, business continuity/disaster recovery and performance tuning/monitoring. The technologies supported include Cisco (ISE/Switches/Routers), Palo Alto (Firewalls and Panorama), Nexus, Avaya, Netmotion and F5.

What You'll Love:

The opportunity to lead and collaborate with IT engineers to design and build technology solutions and architecture to support technical and business project portfolio. Your solution led, can-do approach will be empowered to add value from day one and affect changes which will impact the entire business! Serving as the subject matter expert on key network technology trends you'll have the chance to develop innovative solutions for business problems and initiatives. Your participation in cross-functional teams is required to analyze business problems as well as recommend solutions or enhancements to current procedures or processes.

REQUIREMENTS:

• A 4-year degree in Information Technology / Computer Science field
• 10+ years' experience in network engineering
• CCNA or other certifications (CCDP/CCNP/CCDI/CCIE) preferred

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• VPC, FEX and Palo Alto/Panorama. , EtherChannel, Switch Stacking, QoS, Network design and standards, VRF-Lite, VDC, Fabric-Path, Enterprise wireless - 802.11g/n/ac, VLAN's, port trunking, VXLANzoning, etc.), Deep understanding of the following: BGP, OSPF, FHRP's, SAN networking (NPIV,
• Expert level in Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking concepts with hands on experience.
• Proficient in VPN technologies utilizing IPSEC and SSL.
• Excellent problem solving and organizational skills.

WORKING CONDITIONS/PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

Perform sedentary work- exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time.

Essential Utilities, Inc., is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Equal employment opportunity is provided to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to the following legally protected characteristics: race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions, including medical conditions related to lactation), physical or mental disability, covered-veteran status, genetic information (including testing and characteristics), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal law.
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To maintain the integrity of the recruitment process and to avoid real or perceived conflicts of interest due to employment and/or assignment of family members and personal referrals, specific guidelines apply to the hiring and assignment of these individuals including, but not limited to:

• Family members cannot result in a supervisor/subordinate reporting relationship
• Family members cannot work in the same department.